News

Nov 5, 2019

Cité-ID was fea­tured in an arti­cle pub­lished Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 2, 2019, in the news­pa­per Le Devoir. The arti­cle was includ­ed in a spe­cial sup­ple­ment rec­og­niz­ing the 50^th anniver­sary of the ENAP, the École nationale d’administration publique. Marie-Chris­tine Ther­rien, Direc­tor of Cité-ID, Marie Daoust Gau­thi­er, Research Assis­tant at Cité-ID, and the Asso­ci­a­tion de Sécu­rité Civile du Québec, explain the accom­pa­ni­ment Cité-ID has pro­vid­ed the Asso­ci­a­tion in its post-dis­as­ter recov­ery efforts. The project is being under­tak­en in part­ner­ship with the Québec Min­istry of Pub­lic Secu­ri­ty. To read the arti­cle, click here Pho­to: Annick MH from Carufel Archives Le Devoir...

Oct 15, 2019

Wednes­day, Novem­ber 6 at 7 pm will be held a work­shop to bet­ter under­stand the con­cept of social cap­i­tal or the cre­ation of social links through the exam­ple of an activ­i­ty that is reg­u­lar­ly held in the Cen­ter-Sud neigh­bor­hood : Soupe Locale Cen­tre-Sud. This activ­i­ty orga­nized in col­lab­o­ra­tion with UPop Mon­tréal et CDC Cen­tre-Sud. For this occa­sion, our research assis­tant, Mor­gan Che­li­hi and our co-direc­tor, Julie-Maude Nor­mandin will be present as speak­ers dur­ing the event. This work­shop will be held at the Éco­musée du Fier Monde locat­ed at 2050 Amherst Street​.To par­tic­i­pate : http://​www​.upop​mon​tre​al​.com/au…...

Aug 27, 2019

The 100 Resilient Cities net­work iden­ti­fies in their report ​“A Practitioner’s Guide to Mea­sure­ment Chal­lenges and Oppor­tu­ni­ties ” sev­er­al ini­tia­tives from around the world that mea­sure social cohe­sion and to bet­ter under­stand role in the devel­op­ment of urban resilience. Among the ideas pre­sent­ed, our project on the Local Soup ini­ti­at­ed by the CDC Cen­tre-Sud is an exam­ple of a mea­sure of social cohe­sion. The 100 Resilient Cities iden­ti­fy the City-ID’s Social Cap­i­tal Mea­sure­ment Guide as one of the ref­er­ences to be con­sult­ed by practitioners.For the achieve­ment of this project, we worked close­ly with the CDC Cen­tre-Sud, the Mai­son de l’innovation sociale (MIS) and the Office of the Tran­si­tion and Resilience of the City of Mon­tréal. This project was fund­ed by the Mai­son de l’innovation sociale (MIS) and Mitacs. ...

Aug 21, 2019

In a spe­cial edi­tion of Que­bec Sci­ence mag­a­zine, Cité-ID LivingLab’s direc­tor, Marie-Chris­tine Ther­rien, address­es the ques­tion of cities’ abil­i­ty to devel­op new tools to respond more quick­ly and more specif­i­cal­ly to the needs of cit­i­zens. take the pulse of their ideas and their demands. This spe­cial issue of April 2019 focus­es on cities’ inter­est in using the emer­gence of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to improve their eco­log­i­cal foot­print and the effi­cien­cy of their ser­vices. To find this arti­cle (Only in french) : https://​bit​.ly/​2​z​bZV4f...

Mar 12, 2019

The Cité-ID Direc­tor has been appoint­ed to the Sci­en­tif­ic Com­mit­tee of the City of London’s Counter-ter­ror­ism Pre­pared­ness and Soci­etal Resilience Project.The Cité-ID Direc­tor has been appoint­ed to the Sci­en­tif­ic Com­mit­tee of the City of London’s Counter-ter­ror­ism Pre­pared­ness and Soci­etal Resilience Project. Through the project, the City of Lon­don is col­lab­o­rat­ing with the cities of Barcelona,​Man­ches­ter, Paris, Rot­ter­dam and Stock­holm to improve pre­pared­ness against the risk of ter­ror­ist attacks and bet­ter man­age the recov­ery phase. The aim is to sup­port and exchange learn­ing around how to improve resilience in these large Euro­pean cities. A sci­en­tif­ic com­mit­tee of eight inter­na­tion­al researchers, includ­ing ENAP pro­fes­sor and direc­tor of Cité-ID, Marie-Chris­tine Ther­rien, has been appoint­ed to sup­port the Euro­pean cities involved in this effort. The sci­en­tif­ic com­mit­tee will share rel­e­vant research and results with city prac­ti­tion­ers, and will devel­op a method­ol­o­gy to com­pare ap...

Mar 6, 2019

Back on our par­tic­pa­tion to the Win­ter School 2019 of INM On Feb­ru­ary 15, City-ID’s direc­tor and ENAP pro­fes­sor, Marie-Chris­tine Ther­rien par­tic­i­pat­ed at the open­ing con­fer­ence of the Win­ter School 2019 of the Insti­tut du Nou­veau Monde (INM).Hosted by INM Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Julie Caron-Malen­fant, this con­fer­ence fea­tured the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Unit­ed Nations High Com­mis­sion­er for Refugees in Cana­da, Jean-Nico­las Beuze, City-ID Liv­ingLab Direc­tor Marie-Chris­tine Ther­rien, and the ini­tia­tor and spokesman of the Pacte Tran­si­tion, Dominic Cham­pagne. The speak­ers had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to share their vision of the future cli­mate through their expe­ri­ences, exper­tise and com​mit​ments​.To lis­ten to the con­fer­ence, click on this link (Only in french) : https://​www​.face​book​.com/​insti… ...

Feb 12, 2019

Cite-ID Liv­ingLab cel­e­brates his first anniversary.This first anniver­sary is marked by the achieve­ment of sev­er­al projects and the pub­li­ca­tion of numer­ous arti­cles and chap​ters​.In the upcom­ing year, Cité-ID intends to con­tin­ue its work as an incu­ba­tor for new inter-sec­­toral evi­­dence-based approach­es and inno­v­a­tive prac­tices in urban resilience.We are proud to present the Annu­al Report of the Cite-ID, click on the link below ⬇️ https://​cre​ate​.pik​tochart​.com/…...

Feb 4, 2019

2019 Con­gress of ACFAS This year, Cité-ID Liv­ingLab will take part in two sym­po­siums in social sci­ences and mul­ti­sec­to­r­i­al as part of the ACFAS 2019 Con­gress. The con­fer­ence ​“Design, Imple­men­ta­tion and Gov­er­nance of Pub­lic Resilience Poli­cies” orga­nized by Marie-Chris­tine Ther­rien (ENAP), Julie-Maude Nor­mandin (ENAP) and Geneviève Bar­il (ENAP) will be held on May 30, 2019.This col­lo­qui­um aims to reflect on the devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of pub­lic poli­cies aimed at increas­ing the resilience of com­mu­ni­ties to crises through ana­lyzes of the design, imple­men­ta­tion and gov­er­nance of these poli­cies. This sym­po­sium also seeks to iden­ti­fy the chal­lenges, prob­lems and solu­tions expe­ri­enced by pub­lic orga­ni­za­tions to increase the resilience of com­mu­ni­ties at the local, munic­i­pal, region­al, provin­cial or nation­al lev­els. Final­ly, this sym­po­sium aims to dis­cuss the future evo­lu­tion of these poli­cies. If you wish to par­tic­i­pate, please send your pro­pos­al to julie.maude-normandin@enap...

Jan 21, 2019

Marie-Chris­tine Ther­rien, direc­tor of Cite-ID Liv­ingLab and pro­fes­sor at ÉNAP, will take part in the Que­bec City to the open­ing con­fer­ence « Cli­mate of the Future» Feb­ru­ary 19, orga­nized by the Insti­tut du Nou­veau Monde for it Win­ter School. In the com­pa­ny of Dominic Cham­pagne, direc­tor and ini­tia­tor of the Tran­si­tion Pact, Jean-Nico­las Beuze, rep­re­sen­ta­tive of UNHCR Cana­da, the pan­elists will dis­cuss the issue of cli­mate change. For more infor­ma­tion, click Here ...